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How powerful are the state parliaments in the pandemic?
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“Absolutely bitter”: The Chancellor and Prime Minister met again and again during the pandemic. And the opposition factions in the state parliaments like here in Bavaria? What they could do was put pressure on.
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The Corona crisis is considered the “hour of the executive” – but are the state parliaments really falling behind? In any case, the traffic light coalition wants to strengthen it again. The only question is whether that works. A view between Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Peter Fahrenholz, Munich, and Christian Wernicke, Düsseldorf
There is a lot going on in the House – and again about the virus. Verena Schäffer, co-leader of the Green parliamentary group, stands at the lectern of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament. The 35-year-old reviled the pandemic policy of the black and yellow NRW coalition as “a disaster”, Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) vowed vigilance, but what he actually achieved was “watch and do nothing and wait”.
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